Terms Used In Missouri Laws 532.540

  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020

No sheriff or other person shall be liable to any civil action for obeying any order of discharge, made according to the provisions of this chapter; and if any action shall be brought against him for suffering any person committed to his custody to go at large, pursuant to any such order, he may plead the same in his answer thereto, in bar of such action.